Aircraft fuelled by waste cooking oil takes off from Beijing

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Hainan Airlines Flight 497 took off from Beijing at 2:15 pm Tuesday, headed to Chicago. The aircraft flew with biological aviation fuel that is produced from waste cooking oil, signaling the first China-US flight to use green aviation fuel.

The flight on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner will arrive at Chicago O'Hare International Airport at 12:55 pm local time on Tuesday, after flying 11,297 kilometers.

The aviation kerosene made from restaurants' waste kitchen oil is produced at Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Company, a subsidiary of China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, based in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province.